Well the RAID 5 comment didn't make sense though. RAID 5 is fine on ami or mfi.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:19:50PM +0100, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > >> Short story, if you need hardware RAID, buy an Areca. It's rock, > >> rock, rock > >> solid. In fact, I just upgraded my box to 4.6, prior to the upgrade I > >> was > >> running 4.3 on a degraded RAID1 -- one drive completely failed --for 5 > >> weeks > >> without ever noticing (full disclosure, it was my own fault for not > >> setting > >> up sensorsd to see the failure)! > >> > > I can't speak as to how they compare with mfi but +1 for Areca. Had an > > array and possibly a controller fail due to over heating and their > > support was great. Emailed in and got a guy on the phone from Taiwan the > > next day who talked me through steps to recover, for free. > > > > Use the 4-port mostly for mirroring and 8-port for larger raid6 arrays. > > Works with bio/sensors. > > Thanks for all the information and suggestions, it definitly helped a lot! > > Michael
